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ioles 4-6 cm. long, channeled, pubescent like the stem: leaflets 

 7-9, oblong-spatulate, 3-4 cm. long, the apex rounded or acutish, 

 shortly mucronate, equally pubescent on both sides with ap- 

 pressed hairs: peduncle rather short and stout, 7 or 8 cm. long: 

 inflorescence about 2 dm. long: bracts setaceous, deciduous, 6mm. 

 long: pubescent pedicels 5 mm. long: flowers pale violet-blue, 

 indistinctly whorled, about 13 mm. long, 10 or 11 mm. wide: 

 calyx 8mm. long, densely appressed pubescent, both lobes 

 strongly convex, lanceolate, each about 3 mm. wide at base, the 

 upper a trifle shorter than the lower, rounded dorsally, shortly 2- 

 toothed; lower lobe with a sharp keel-like ridge, almost acumi- 

 nate, entire: banner with edges turned back but not meeting, 

 the space between 2 or 3 mm. wide, this concavity with a prom- 

 inent ridge along the bottom ending in a mucro at the apex; 

 the sides pale violet with darker edges, the face yellowish, dot- 

 ted with small purple spots; wings open along the lower edge 

 to within 3 mm. of the apex, exposing the keel, which pro- 

 trudes 2 mm., the upper edges meeting or merely showing a 

 narrow slit; keel strongly curved, glabrous, the inner edges hya- 

 line, about 4 mm. wide to a little above the middle, then gradu- 

 ally narrowed to the pointed apex. 



The type is no. 7814, collected April 18, 1905, at Girard 

 Station in the Tehachapi mountains, Kern county, California, 

 and is not uncommon in that region. It is related to L. formo- 

 sus, which has been found only in the San Francisco Bay re- 

 gion. 



TvUPiNUS MINIMUS Dough; Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 163. 1833. 



No. 7933, collected June i, near Shasta Retreat, Siskiyou 

 county. The plant is common along the upper Sacramento at 

 least as far south as Castella, and is also found about Sisson and 

 elsewhere near the foot of Mt. Shasta. It is a strikingly hand- 

 some species, often growing in masses in gravelly or sandy soil. 



